(and Mandarin, too)

Same - I was so disappointed at Depp’s casting, I didn’t go see the second movie (even though I’ve been a big Harry Potter fan up to now). Rowling and her franchise really screwed up there.

I know far less about tennis than you seem to, but I agree that the rules seem good: if there’s no regulation limiting teens’ competition time, then any teen/teen’s parents who hold a player back from competing full-on (say, because they want to give their kid more time to mature emotionally/physically, or because…

I came here to say this! Pumping provides babies with nutrients and it helps keep up supply when you’re away from your baby (it’s also a time-suck and a pain in the ass and, for me, WAY less efficient than the baby nursing directly, but you do what you have to do). Pumping, especially, for me, when my child was 3-6…

I mean, at the root of these social norms is the belief that men must be big and strong and women must be dainty (at least in comparison). It’s a belief rooted in heterosexism and the gender binary—the expectation that relationships should have a physically distinct “man” and “woman”—not to mention this idea that men…

Re: Kristen Stewart, I saw a piece a while back that made (what I thought was) a pretty compelling argument that if she were a guy, her stoic, minimally expressive acting might be celebrated rather than mocked as wooden. It was on The Toast, here: http://the-toast.net/2014/08/25/watching-new-kristen-stewart-trailer-sou…

HOW DARE YOU? Sue and Mel are objectively great. (What is the internet for if not to voice strong opinions about TV personalities?)

Ooh, can I play?

The police have also used tasers for these purposes (as well as people having died as a direct result of being tased).

My thoughts exactly! If tasers are supposed to be “less than lethal” weapons that police can use on the population, then it stands to reason that the officer—who was trained in the use of a taser and would know that it’s less than lethal—should have known his life wasn’t in danger. You can’t have it both ways. Either…

As a long time sci-fi/fantasy fan, I accept your opinion but cannot agree with it, either ;)

I appreciate your bringing in some evidence from Dany’s past to show why she always had some of these tendencies (so much has happened, it’s easy to forget!) ... but as brutal as she’s been, she’s also been someone who listened to her advisors and, when guided in the direction of compromises that would help establish…

Watching this last episode felt really painful precisely for this reason. It’s like:

Agree - this article seems like part of a trend I’ve noticed on Jezebel recently where authors are unleashing their snark on feminist ideas and strategies that they perceive as, I don’t know, dated or uncool?

I don’t think it makes her a horrible person (indeed, quite the opposite). But I’m less interested in whether she’s a good or bad person, and more interested in what kinds of effects her recent advocacy work has for people harmed by the justice system in the U.S. Helping one person (albeit a lot!) is only a drop in…

I agree with a lot of Bernie’s political positions, but I also don’t trust him. The way he sometimes talks about race and gender—framing them as “identity politics” that are distractions from the “real” issues of economic inequality—make him sound like just another white marxist bro who wants to tell women and…

I’m sure somebody, somewhere, has said Rick Santorum is not an idiot. That person is also an idiot.

Yeah, that was my thought as well. Isn’t “taking action to get someone to pass a law” literally how a representative democracy works? And shouldn’t someone who was once elected to serve in said representative democracy be aware of this pretty basic fact?

LEAVE ADMIRAL ACKBAR OUT OF THIS!

The thing I find particularly funny about all of this is that someone with the username “Healing Crystals” is trying to explain the scientific method to us.